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Blog Posts in August 2016

Having Bill Hartman, Mike Robertson and Eric Oetter sit in the first row of any course I instruct is not only an honor, but it's like drinking coffee all day. They change, drive and motivate me to give the best course I can, only because their genuine interest in deepening concepts, therapy philosophies, and neuro-mechanical relationships organized. I always feel welcomed and appreciated. According to Jen Platt they have hosted at least six of our courses and they treat every faculty member and course attendee as one of their “family” members. The diversity of the attendees always reflects the culture of the class and this weekend was so rewarding for me personally because of the questions, interest and diverse reasoning for PRI application. Thank you IFAST, again, for a divergent weekend with course attendees that heard a discussion about a cervical complex that has finite limits.

Posted August 31, 2016 at 2:39PM

On a sunny Sunday in June, the staff at Advance Physical Therapy in Chapel Hill, NC invited second year physical therapy students from UNC Chapel Hill to attend a screening for treating pain and dysfunction using Postural Restoration. The experience produced many and varied positive outcomes for all involved. We thought other PRI clinicians might like to know what we learned.

On the students: I teach PT students annually each spring. Inevitably this endeveour culminates in a line of young, high achieving, overworked, overstressed, mostly PEC’s at my door. Further, after years of attending courses within the institute, it seems the most dysfunctional and complex patients are often the PT’s sitting around me. We ourselves realize the profound benefits of PRI most when we feel the effects personally. As with PT practitioners, when PT students are offered plausible mechanisms for their chronic painful states, and more when they are changed by PRI, openness to the approach is enthusiastic. Working with students in this way seems powerful toward the PRI paradigm shift we would like to see within PT. The students also offered helpful feedback with regard to comparing different clinician handling for PRI tests.

On our clinicians: With 12 willing student subjects in the clinic, we couldn’t resist the temptation to try a bit of inter rater reliability among our clinicians for 3 basic PRI screening tests: Adduction Drop Test (ADT), Humeral Glenoid Internal Rotation (HGIR) and Cervical Axial Rotation (CAR).

In looking at our findings, it seems consistency among us was good for ADT and HGIR. Our values for CAR were frankly inconsistent, giving us an opportunity to discuss and problem solve on the utility and practice of CAR, as a group. Related topics entering later discussions included:

  • use of pillows and other forms of support during testing to accommodate clinicians capacity and patient comfort – perhaps changing patient tolerance for testing?,
  • anthropomorphics influencing decision-making (for example should a short femur on a wide pelvis drop as far as a long femur on a narrow pelvis?),
  • unique descriptions and measures during testing ranging from formally measured degrees, to estimates of %, or use of ++, each often with written distinctions for quality of motion and leading to diagnosis and treatment thinking,
  • pelvic/hip instability, frank hypermobility influencing test results, esp. false negatives?,
  • SI dysfunction perhaps influencing test results in strange patterns like + R ADT, - L ADT?,
  • repeated testing influencing test results?

On our clinic as a whole: All together at a follow up meeting, we watched each other do these same tests, this time on one subject, to discuss our individual thinking without the “blinding” we employed with the students. In the end we discovered we each employed unique positioning and preferences for support. Our collective descriptions, thinking and rationale for ratings were insightful and got us all looking more creatively about our own process with a greater likelihood of being in the same neighborhood, if not exactly the same page as our fellow PRI clinicians.

Posted August 31, 2016 at 9:35AM
Categories: Clinicians Science

Well Needham got Ham. I just enjoyed a weekend with a stratified group including Occupational Therapists, Personal Trainers, Physical Therapists, Athletic Trainers, Student Physical Therapists and Strength Coaches all united as movement scientists. We spent time discussing diagnoses that reflect polyarticular chained movement patterns particular to asymmetrical acetabulofemoral joints and how they pertain to performance of athletes of all kinds. We had a thorough discussion of compensatory patterns and pathological tendencies associated with a left AIC patterned individual and developed treatment strategies to amend movement dysfunction findings from objective testing. Thank you @DanTorgersen and your team at Pure Performance Training for the use of your facility and all the accommodations therein--and Dan for your modeling skills. Thank you Tyler Tanaka for teaching us the inhibition strategy of "New Puppy Neutral", thanks Fotios Pantazis for the excellent dialogue throughout the course regarding specific intervention. Samantha Russell again wins the dedicated student award for her long trip from AK, this time even further than Dallas! Stacey Lillios, Emily Mandara, Laura Lapolla and Brandon Mcconaughey-Freeman helped the class by asking a nice variety clinically relevant questions; thanks @JasonDBryne for showing up to DO WORK in the arena of myokinematics and keeping the discussion humorous. Though @JoshO_PRC was not present, there was amazing hair represented by @MUSCLE5Marinara, Pure Performance's own Michale Campanella. And, while also not present, thanks @mjmatc Michael Mullin who has helped further interest in PRI in the greater Northeast as much as anyone. Thanks Ian Funk for thoughtful contribution on PR principles and for having a sweet last name. Thanks Callie Effland, Lucia Sloan and Ricky Sirois for aiding learning by volunteering for lab demonstration. Lastly, thanks to the Needham hub who served as lab assistant, Donna Behr from Donna Behr Physical Therapy who is a good friend, great host and will soon be the featured interview here on the PRI website! Thoroughly enjoyed my time with some wicked smart movement scientists in the northeast!

Posted August 30, 2016 at 2:00PM

This past weekend Chris Gaines of Performance Gaines hosted Postural Respiration in Palo Alto, CA. I taught a diverse group of PT's, D.C.'s, athletic trainers, massage therapists and sports performance professionals. The attendees came from all backgrounds and facilities ranging from private practice, professional sports teams, universities, specialties in pediatrics and the military. This was a high performance group that really "brought it" with energy, attention and loads of questions! Mr. Chris Gaines did a great job hosting. Thank you Chris!

Posted August 23, 2016 at 10:39AM

I have the pleasure of teaching Postural Respiration at Finish Line Physical Therapy in New York City on August 13-14. I love NYC for many reasons….but no one is more hospitable than the people at Finish Line. Michael Conlon is the epitome of the word “host”. The material that I presented was the same presentation that I wrote and gave in 1995, before the Postural Restoration Institute was created. It was material based off my study of the cranium, neck and respiration. Its origional1998 PRI course name was Postural Restoration, however I renamed it Postural Respiration in 2004 because of the strong connection of respiratory influence on postural restoration. Not only do I love NYC, but I love teaching this course anywhere, especially when there are “new” PRI course attendees in the classroom. There were 23 “new” course attendees present! Explaining how “over rotation” of a set of ribs can resist movement on a transverse or frontal plane is about as wonderful as hugging my four year old grandson who lives a few blocks down from Finish Line! Thanks for bringing me to NYC…again. Oh, by the way, Dan Cerone, thank you for your feedback after the course. Not only will you “remember it forever” I will remember you as long as I have a memory.  


Posted August 23, 2016 at 9:12AM

Allen and I enjoyed our weekend in Philadelphia at the Maplezone Sports Institute with the staff from the Training Room PT, who hosted PRI Integration for Baseball. Thank you to Rob Rabena and Jon Herting for sharing such a great facility with us and for being such great hosts. It was great to get to spend some time with an old friend Navin Hettiarachchi, and to enjoy the evening with him and Allen after the first day of the course. We took a tour of the new Philadelphia Mormon Temple and we all agreed it was a very beautiful building. Near the end of our tour we got to take our picture next to Thorvaldsen's "Christus" statue. The original stands in Copenhagen Denmark, but the statue we saw was an impressive replica and made for a great picture. Allen and Navin could not get over the fact that Jesus was standing in left AFIR with a lot of right chest wall expansion. We laughed because the most memorable part of our tour was getting our picture taken with "Left AFIR Jesus". Notre Dame and the Catholics have Touchdown Jesus and BYU and the Mormons have Left AFIR Jesus. Too funny. The second day of the baseball course was focused mostly on testing and treatment. The biggest ah-ha's seemed to come during the Quadriped TS-ST Stability Test lab. The combination of assessing lateralization, pelvic elevation and proper weight shift across the pelvis while in AFIR with contralateral trunk rotation helped attendees recognize tri planar performance deficits across the lumbo-pelvic and thoraco-abdominal core on one side of the body compared to the other. All in all, it was a great weekend of PRI principles, baseball throwing mechanics, tri-planer movement assessments and both treatment and training techniques for the baseball athlete. Thank you Philadelphia for all the fun memories.

Posted August 22, 2016 at 2:34PM
Categories: Courses

I was invited by Chris Poirier of Perform Better to present an introduction of PRI principles in Long Beach, CA for the 2016 Perform Better Functional Training Summit.  This was the first time “PRI Nation” was represented at a Perform Bettter Summit on the West Coast.  Among the presenters pictured were Dan John, Stu McGill, Chris Mohr, Todd Durkin, Jason Glass, Greg Rose, Brandon Marcello, Brian Nguyen, Martin Rooney, Mark Toomey, Josh Henkin, Ben Bruno and Alwyn Cosgrove and yours truly with the white polo shirt! (Center front).  I was asked to join the Saturday afternoon panel for questions and answers and  was able to provide a  compelling lead-in for the  Sunday morning lecture and hands on.  Both hands on and lecture segments were extremely well attended and received.  The buzz heard in the room from the attendees was “we have been waiting to hear about PRI, now we want to take courses and learn about PRI principles for rehab and performance especially managing human asymmetries and rotational performance!”  Thanks much to Michael Mullin who provided support in this first time appearance and who speaks for Perform Better on a regular basis.  And Thanks much to Chris Poirier for allowing me the opportunity to present!   This past weekend, August 13-14, I was invited by Chris Poirier of Perform Better to present an introduction of PRI principles in Long Beach, CA for the 2016 Perform Better Functional Training Summit.  This was the first time “PRI Nation” was represented on the West Coast.  Among the presenters pictured were Dan John, Stu McGill, Chris Mohr, Todd Durkin, Jason Glass, Greg Rose, Brandon Marcello, Brian Nguyen, Martin Rooney, Mark Toomey, Josh Henkin, Ben Bruno and Alwyn Cosgrove and yours truly with the white polo shirt! (Center front).  I was asked to join the Saturday afternoon panel for questions and answers and  was able to provide a  compelling lead-in for the  Sunday morning lecture and hands on.  Both hands on and lecture segments were extremely well attended and received.  The buzz heard in the room from the attendees was “we have been waiting to hear about PRI, now we want to take courses and learn about PRI principles for rehab and performance especially managing human asymmetries and rotational performance!”  Thanks much to Michael Mullin who provided support in this first time appearance and who speaks for Perform Better on a regular basis.  And Thanks much to Chris Poirier for allowing me the opportunity to present!   

Posted August 22, 2016 at 10:54AM

Another month has come and passed, which means the application deadline for our Postural Restoration Trained™(PRT) credentialing program is approaching quickly. We have some exciting news for our PRT credentialing program this year! Over the past few years, we have had several Athletic Trainers and Strength and Conditioning Coaches express an interest in completing the PRT credentialing program, but due to the schedule of the teams that they work with, they are unable to get away to attend testing in January. Therefore, we will begin offering a summer testing date which will take place once every 3 years, beginning in 2017. This next year, we will offer our traditional winter testing date on January 9-10th, and our summer testing date will take place on June 23-24th, 2017.

PRT applications for the winter testing date are due on October 15th, 2016. Testing will take place on January 9-10th (following the Impingement & Instability course) at the Postural Restoration Institute in Lincoln, Nebraska.

PRT applications for the summer testing date will be due on March 15, 2017. Testing will take place on June 23-24th at the Postural Restoration Institute in Lincoln, Nebraska. Please note that there will not be an Impingement & Instability course offered in conjunction with this testing date, therefore all applicants will need to take this required course elsewhere prior to testing.  

Postural Restoration Trained (PRT) is a credential available to Athletic Trainers (with Certification through the BOC), Athletic Therapists (with Certification through the CATA) and Strength and Conditioning Coaches (with CSCS Certification through the NSCA or SCCC Certification through the CSCCa). For more information on the course requirements and to download the application, CLICK HERE!

If you are planning to apply for PRT, and have any questions, please email me!

Posted August 16, 2016 at 11:15AM

This weekend, James and I traveled outside of Dallas to teach the PRI Fitness and Movement course for the 5th time. Thank you to Trey, Charles, and Jonathon for their gracious hospitality and welcoming us into the awesome EXOS facility in Frisco, Texas. It is exciting to be apart of the evolution of the PRI Fitness & Movement course. It continues to come together and surpass people’s expectations. I am so grateful for those that shared their appreciation and thoughts with me after course. We are receiving very positive feedback from both PRCs, experienced PRI practitioners, as well as from the attendees who are new to the PRI science. The course does deliver a lot of content, so much so, we’ve had two attendees repeating the course for the second time already this year! Another 2 this weekend told me that the material blew their mind, and they can’t wait to take it again next year! I think this is great. Each time we take a PRI course we learn more application of PRI and fine tune our understanding of a complex and integrated science. This course brings us back to the basics and reminds us how powerful getting really good with the basics can be! I do believe this is one of those courses you can and should repeat to enhance your understanding, as well as find inspiration and new stuff to integrate!

 For this review I thought readers may be more interested in hearing from actual participants:

Josh Ogden, Collegiate Athletic Training: “First of all, I want to thank you for putting together a great course and an excellent presentation this past weekend. In athletic training, at least in my setting, we don’t usually deal in either pure rehabilitation cases or pure performance settings, but in bridging the gap between those two domains.  Your course this past weekend was excellent for me because it really helped me see how to integrate all of the information and techniques I’ve learned in all of my previous PRI courses and immediately apply it in the athletic training room to transition my rehab cases into more functional, sport performance work.  Prior to this, the patterns, repositioning techniques, etc. all made perfect sense to me, but I had no clue how to get my patients up off of the table and into more performance based rehabilitation; by Sunday afternoon, I was already redesigning programs based on what I learned this weekend and was able to immediately apply the course on Monday morning.  This course makes the others all make sense and is seamlessly integrable with all of the techniques I was already doing. After one day with the changes I implemented this past Monday after the course, the only patient I’ve got in town right now sent me a text as soon as he woke up today asking for an off or light day because he was so sore in the muscle groups we’d targeted.”

John Glenn, Personal Training Fitness: “What a great course!!!! You have done a great job putting this together. I really appreciate how open and honest you were telling about your past experiences, success and "failures". I am going to pursue the study of PRI, this was my first course.”

Navin Hettiarachchi, Professional Athletics: “Thank you very much for a great seminar! First seminar was good, but this one was Great!! This time around the content and the presentation was taken to another level. I loved it!!“

James Anderson – Professional PRI extraordinaire: “I have really enjoyed the evolution of the PRI Integration for Fitness and Movement course, with Julie getting better each time she has the opportunity to present. Her confidence levels are high, and I consistently hear people experienced and even certified in PRI say that her presentation expanded their overall view of thoracic movement dynamics, tri-planer ground-based performance, and integrated movement sequence. They say this material has really helped to bridge the gap between PRI sidelying rehab programs that they would like to get up into standing and having success with dynamic standing training techniques. Well done Julie!”

Thanks Guys! I am definitely looking forward to teaching our remaining courses for 2016 – Boston next month (which is already sold out) and Phoenix in November. If you have any interest in going, don't hesitate to sign up! You won't be disappointed! Hope to see you there! 

Posted August 15, 2016 at 10:53AM
Categories: Courses

Hear about the Hruska Clinic Mentorship program from our most recent guests, Takuto Kondo and Kan Sugiyama, from Japan.

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Posted August 15, 2016 at 8:59AM
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